Understanding El Niño — The importance of Grey Literature in Coastal Ecosystem Research and Management

Thatje, Sven; Laudien, Jürgen; Heilmayer, Olaf; Nauen, Cornelia E.

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2006.04.007

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“…With respect to the languages used for publishing, Spanish was the most frequently used language across the collected literature, whereas English was the most common in peer-reviewed papers. Accordingly, it is important to emphasize that when a Latin American bibliography search is conducted, it is necessary to take into account both Latin American journals and international journals because very valuable information would otherwise be lost (Thatje et al 2007). A great deal of the available information on the utilization of birds as pets is included in studies focused on wild fauna or wild birds, and there are few studies that focus exclusively on song and ornamental birds.…”

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Literature review of the use of birds as pets in Latin-America, with a detailed perspective on Mexico

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A large amount of birds are harvested from the natural environment for the pet market. This trade is a conservation issue and an economic income for many people, two aspects not analyzed yet as a complex system of causes and effects. Though bird trade is common in Latin-America there are few published studies. Therefore, we reviewed available literature to understand the background of this topic and to identify future relevant research topics. We collected, summarized and discussed literature about bird use as pets in Latin-America, with a detailed approach in México. We searched by keywords in search engines. We got a database of 128 documents. Brazil was identified as one of the main countries of bird use research. Most of the papers focused on parrots (27%) and were conducted at a local geographical level (47%). Half of the papers are focused on the general use of birds, 44% on the use as pets and 5% on other uses. The most common techniques employed for gaining information belong to the social sciences. In Mexico, 82% of the information is “gray literature”, mainly congress abstracts. This literature review shows that wildlife use in general and wild birds use as pets in particular are common in Latin-America. We bring to light that most information is not found in peer review journals and contains only useful bird lists. Finally, we found that social organization and actor’s perception research is scarce so we suggest more research in this direction in order to implement better management policies

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Literature review of the use of birds as pets in Latin-America, with a detailed perspective on Mexico

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“…Sin embargo, el perfil del científico multidisciplinario permanece desdibujado y poco entendido por las corrientes científicas tradicionales (Amir, 1987), por lo que sigue siendo una minoría. Incluso el entendimiento de los enfoques interdisciplinarios continúa siendo limitado por la propia comunidad académica cuando se evalúa su producción científica (Bocco et al, 2014) o cuando se estigmatiza el uso de fuentes de información complementarias en investigaciones relacionadas con el manejo sustentable de los recursos naturales (e.g., conocimiento ecológico local, literatura gris; Gilchrist et al, 2005;Thatje et al, 2007). En este contexto de cambio constante y alta incertidumbre, aún son frecuentes las preguntas del tipo: ¿cómo es el trabajo de un científico interesado en crear conocimientos para apoyar la toma de decisiones sobre el cambio climático?, ¿qué herramientas necesita el académico que analiza aspectos relacionados con la conservación de la biodiversidad, la economía ambiental o el manejo de sistemas socioecológicos (SSE)?, ¿cómo puede diseñarse un proyecto de investigación enfocado en resolver las problemáticas multidimensionales de alguna comunidad o sector productivo?…”

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“…El equipo humano de los laboratorios de la sustentabilidad también debe estar capacitado para comunicar el conocimiento técnico y científico a diferentes audiencias, por medio de la comunicación directa, de publicaciones formales, de la participación en foros de discusión y talleres con actores múltiples, así como de instrumentos de difusión científica y medios impresos populares. Para superar la limitante existente respecto a la inaccesibilidad y dispersión de la información útil para el manejo de los recursos naturales (Thatje, 2007), un fin último de comunicar la información creada por estos laboratorios es hacerla disponible para los usuarios potenciales a través de medios electrónicos abiertos (e.g., páginas web, servidores en línea, revistas open access).…”

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Laboratorios para la Sustentabilidad: nuevos espacios para el quehacer científico y la formación de recursos humanos

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La relación entre ciencia y sociedad está en constante evolución debido a los continuos desafíos que implica el desarrollo de la humanidad. Ante los procesos de deterioro ambiental global, se ha incrementado la presión social sobre aquella parte de la academia comprometida con la creación de conocimiento teórico y práctico que respalde el manejo sostenible de los recursos naturales y un desarrollo acorde. En este contexto, durante la década de los noventas emergen nuevas disciplinas científicas con una visión sistémica, sintética y humanística, cuyo desarrollo requiere de novedosas capacidades humanas y logísticas. Así es como surgen espacios académicos especializados que cuentan con los medios necesarios para favorecer la formulación de propuestas y soluciones que atiendan los retos de la sustentabilidad. El objetivo de este trabajo es poner en relieve la importancia de los laboratorios para la sustentabilidad para el quehacer científico actual y sus capacidades para favorecer un mayor acercamiento entre la ciencia y la sociedad.

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“…This requires, in a Wrst place, a detailed review, integration and dissemination of traditionally available datasets (published and unpublished resources, see Thatje et al 2007) that serves the baseline to ecosystem studies and on top of which scientiWc gaps are identiWed. The traditionally descriptive data available from the coastal upwelling ecosystem oV South America need augmentation by the results obtained from selected process studies, as outlined before, which aim to integrate and explain the universality of patterns for coastal upwelling systems elsewhere.…”

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Climate variability and El Niño Southern Oscillation: implications for natural coastal resources and management

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The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) signiWcantly inXuences marine ecosystems and the sustained exploitation of marine resources in the coastal zone of the Humboldt Current upwelling system. Both its warm (El Niño: EN) and cold (La Niña: LN) phase have drastic implications for the ecology, socio-economy and infrastructure along most of PaciWc South America. Local artisanal Wsheries, which especially suVer from the eVects of EN, represent a major part for the domestic economy of Chile and Peru and in consequence a huge amount of published and unpublished studies exists aiming at identifying eVects of EN and LN. However, most processes and underlying mechanisms fostering the ecology of organisms along PaciWc South America have not been analyzed yet and for the marine realm most knowledge is traditionally based on rather descriptive approaches. We herein advocate that small-scale comparative and interdisciplinary process studies work as one possible solution to understand better the variability observed in EN/LN eVects at local scale. We propose that diVerences in small-scale impacts of ENSO along the coast rather than the macro-ecological and oceanographic view are essential for the sustainable management of costal ecosystems and the livelihood of the people depending on it. Based on this, we summarize the conceptual approach from the EU-funded International Science and Technology Cooperation (INCO) project "Climate variability and El Niño Southern Oscillation: Implications for Natural Coastal Resources and Management (CENSOR)" that aims at enhancing the detection, compilation, and understanding of EN and LN eVects on the coastal zone and its natural resources. We promote a multidisciplinary avenue within present international funding schemes, with the intention to bridge the traditional gap between basic and applied coastal research. The long-term aim is an increased mitigation of harm caused by EN as well as a better use of beneWcial eVects, with the possibility to improve the livelihood of human coastal populations along PaciWc South America and taking diVerences between local socio-economic structures of the countries aVected by EN into consideration. The success of such an approach however, does Wnally rely upon a willingness of the recourse users and the various political and economic stakeholders involved to taking on the message as part of sustainable management strategies.

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Understanding El Niño — The importance of Grey Literature in Coastal Ecosystem Research and Management

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

Literature review of the use of birds as pets in Latin-America, with a detailed perspective on Mexico

Literature review of the use of birds as pets in Latin-America, with a detailed perspective on Mexico

Laboratorios para la Sustentabilidad: nuevos espacios para el quehacer científico y la formación de recursos humanos

Climate variability and El Niño Southern Oscillation: implications for natural coastal resources and management

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